Research Summary: Summarizing and Analyzing the Privacy-Preserving Techniques in Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies

While the authors focused on the limitations/vulnerabilities of cryptographic schemes and data models, to get the full picture on how these privacy techniques compare, I don’t get a sense of how much the average user (in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency) behaves to bolster their privacy or how much of a knowledge gap exists for this stakeholder. I imagine in some cases, adversaries hope or somehow know how well users are ignorant to these techniques.

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